Liberating Girls from Indentured Servitude | In the Dang District in western Nepal, many indigenous families from the Tharu ethnic group subsist as farm laborers. Unable to make ends meet, they have been forced into a desperate trade—selling their daughters to work far from home as bonded servants in private homes or as dishwashers in tea houses. Some of these children are as young as six.

Please contact us at info@nyof.org if you would like a short, professional video on NYOF's indentured girls program. This program also has been profiled on The Oprah Show.

Alone and far from home, these "indentured daughters" have no knowledge of the ways of city people or of other cultures, and most speak only the local dialect. Their living conditions are entirely at the discretion of their employers. The girls seldom attend school and have no prospects for a decent future. Some are ultimately forced into prostitution.

Working closely with local communities, NYOF provides a creative, humane alternative for these families, helping them keep their daughters at home and putting the girls in school. Read on for our unconventional but effective approach....

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